At first the clip reveals two lovers, a Serbian man and Bosnian-Muslim woman, before a darker storyline emerges. It appears the couple was forced apart during the Bosnian war in 1992 and he’s taken her captive. "Am I a prisoner?" she asks. "You are not a prisoner if you want to be here," is his chilling reply.
Bosnian actors Zana Marjanovic and Goran Kostic star in the movie that was filmed in English and Serbo-Croat languages.
The drama marks Jolie's debut as writer and director, but getting the film made hasn’t been easy. In late 2010, "Blood and Honey" caused an uproar with female war victims in Bosnia over rumors that the film portrayed a love story between a rapist and his victim.
Jolie's filming permit was pulled by Sarajevo city officials over the controversy, but later reinstated after they reviewed the script. In the end, Jolie sent a second-unit director to film only three or four days in Bosnia instead of eight or 10, and opted to shoot more of the film in Hungary instead.
The Bosnian government briefly suspended Jolie's right to film in the country, while Bosnia's Association of Women Victims of War wrote to the United Nations calling for Jolie to lose her UN goodwill ambassador status.
According to the synopsis, the movie is a wartime love story between a Serb guard in a prison camp and his former girlfriend, a Bosnian Muslim detainee and does not contain any rape scenes. Jolie said that she was the victim of "unfair pressure based on wrong information" and eventually had her filming permissions restored.
Given the controversy, the film might have been released under the radar. Instead, the promotional campaign is churning into gear, starting with the release of the trailer. The film, which is shot in both English and Serbo-Croat, will be released in the US on 23 December.
All about: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Bosnian War
No comments:
Post a Comment